Betterment and Praxis

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The community for cool things you've done out in the real world, or are doing in the real world!

Covers things like volunteer work, community gardens, political activism, organizing clubs and communities in your public circles, and all the information surrounding how to do that stuff. Also covers self-help and betterment, because to help your community it helps to help yourself!

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So like, what do we do? Political burnout. (self.betterment)

submitted 1 year ago by EthicalAI to c/betterment

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I think I’m having a bit of an autistic burnout moment over politics. I’m moving a lot more left over the years but just don’t feel like I can do anything. I have 2 years left on a work contract and it would be killer to lose that job, but also I want to help people in ways where quitting might be the best option. I want to learn about politics and history more, but I also don’t want to stress about it because I don’t feel like it changes things that much. Id like a community that talks about these feelings and I feel like this should be that community for me. Let’s just chat about it.

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[–] StringTheory 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I start feeling like that, I pick up my garbage-grabber stick and a bag and stroll through my neighborhood picking up trash.

It’s a small thing, but it’s a physical and immediate thing. It’s almost meditative due to its simplicity.

And random people stopping to thank me is pretty nice, too.

[–] Wigglet 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah I 2nd this OP. Do the little immediate things and while you do them you can meditate on what other little things you can work on.